Month: August 2017

Starting August 22, UTSA’s Applied Engineering and Technology (AET) Library opens in a new location on the first floor of the AET Building in Room 1.104. UTSA Libraries’ main campus satellite location has been successful since opening in 2010 as the first bookless library on a university campus. The new library will continue to offer

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) ranks No. 7 among the minority-serving institutions in the nation that received the most federal research obligations (expenditures) for science and engineering, according to updated data released by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for fiscal year 2015. In FY 2015, UTSA expended $23.3 million in federal funding

June, The University of Texas at San Antonio broke ground on its $95 million Science and Engineering Building (SEB), the largest construction project in university history. The building is slated to open in June 2020. The 153,000 square foot building, which will be located on the Main Campus adjacent to the Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering

Meet Mikayla Rahman. This UTSA Honors College student is balancing life as a biomedical engineering major and UTSA cheerleader. Rahman was born in China and was adopted when she was 13 months old. That’s when she moved to Colorado Springs to live with her new family. Rahman lived in Colorado for most of her life, but she

Dr. David Akopian, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been awarded a five-year grant totaling $275,000 from the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. This grant is being funded through The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio’s (UTHSCSA) $2.9 million collaborative grant

Dr. Eugene John, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was one of four UTSA faculty that was awarded the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. This award recognizes faculty who deliver the highest quality of undergraduate instruction, demonstrate their commitment to teach, and have a history and promising future of sustained excellence with undergraduate

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will be hosting their Spring 2015 Student Forum on Friday, February 13th, in the BSE Atrium from 12pm – 2pm. This event is the perfect opportunity for students to hear the latest news from the department and faculty as well as weigh in on important issues. All ECE

Using biological materials as flame retardants, defining the characteristics of soil liquefaction during earthquakes and collecting disaster data with aerial drones are among the twelve disaster resilience research projects awarded just over $6 million by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST). The University of Texas at San Antonio received $798,892 for research

This year’s Engineering Lean Six Sigma (ELSS) conference is being held in Orlando, FL, and participants are invited to compete in the poster competition at the conference. The conference is taking place September 25-27, 2017, in Orlando, FL, and is hosted by the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). The 2017 ELSS Poster Session

UTSA Mission
The University of Texas at San Antonio is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through research and discovery, teaching and learning, community engagement and public service. As an institution of access and excellence, UTSA embraces multicultural traditions and serves as a center for intellectual and creative resources as well as a catalyst for socioeconomic development and the commercialization of intellectual property – for Texas, the nation and the world.

UTSA Vision
To be a premier public research university, providing access to educational excellence and preparing citizen leaders for the global environment.